The "Summary of
Facts" will set the foundation to support Plaintiff Counts as set
forth herein. A complete highly researched timelines of "911"
by American Citizen Mark R. Elsis ( http://911Timeline.net
and http://StandDown.net ) who has
agreed to testify to his research on behalf of Plaintiff, and believed
to be one of the "most comprehensive minute by minute accounts
of the events of "911".

Stand Down is dedicated to Scott Shuger. Scott was known as the first
Internet reporter. He was also the only mainstream or alternative media
writer, besides myself, who had the courage to write about the elementary
mathematical facts (that the two United States Air Force (USAF) F-15
fighters ordered to intercept United Airlines Flight 175 and the two
or three USAF F-16 fighters ordered to intercept American Airlines Flight
77 were flying at only 25.8% and 27.4% of their top speed) of the NORAD
Press Release of September 18, 2001. Scott's article is called IGNORAD
The Military Screw-up Nobody Talks About. Scott Shuger died in a scuba
diving accident June 15, 2002.

With a minute-by-minute chronology from 7:59 a.m. till 10:06:05 a.m.,
this article will dismantle the Wednesday September 18, 2001 North American
Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Press Release. This press release
encompasses the (supposed) response times of the United States Air Force
on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

This article will explain to you exactly what happened for the almost
one hour and fifty-three minutes that elapsed between the time American
Airlines Flight 11 lost voice contact with air traffic control and was
hijacked at 8:13:31, till the time United Airlines Flight 93 crashed
in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:06:05.

Also, when reading this article, please keep in mind
the following five very significant pieces of information.

1) The United States Government
will spend more on the military in fiscal year 2003, than all the rest
of the countries on Earth combined. Current expenditures are 437 billion
and our past obligations are 339 billion, this equals 776 billion. Forty-six
percent of our Taxes go to the Military Industrial Complex: http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
This figure doesnt even begin to account for all of the off-budget,
black projects, homeland security nor the 40+ billion the United States
Government will spend on intelligence in 2003.

2) The United States Air Force
(USAF) is the most technologically advanced, and the most dominate
military
force ever known to man. There were seven Air Stations that were armed
and on full alert to protect the continental United States on
Tuesday
September 11, 2001. The Air National Guard exclusively performs the
air sovereignty mission in the continental United States, and
those
units fall under the control of the 1st Air Force based at Tyndall
Air Force Base (AFB) in Panama City, Florida. The Air National
Guard maintains
seven alert sites with 14 fully armed fighters and pilots on call around
the clock. Besides Tyndall AFB, alert birds also sit armed and
ready
at; Homestead Air Reserve Base (ARB), Homestead, Florida; Langley AFB,
Hampton, Virginia; Otis Air National Guard (ANG), Falmouth, Massachusetts;
Oregon ANG, Portland, Oregon; March ARB, Riverside, CA; and
Ellington ANG, Houston, Texas.
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/1299/home2.htm

There were at least 28 other USAF bases that were in
range of the 4 airliners on 911.

3) New York City and Washington D.C. are far and away
the top two cities in the United States that would be targeted by terrorists.

4) NORAD is a binational United States and Canadian
organization charged with warning of attack against North America whether
by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles, utilizing mutual support arrangements
with other commands. Aerospace control includes providing surveillance
and control of Canadian and United States airspace. The job of NORAD
is to know every inch of the skies over North America.

5) Almost one hundred and thirteen minutes elapsed
between the time American Airlines Flight 11 lost contact and was hijacked
at 8:13:31 till the time United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania at 10:06:05. One hour and fifty-three minutes went by and
the USAF did not intercept any one of these four "hijacked"
airlines. To understand all the rules, regulation and procedures that
make this totally impossible to happen, please read:

7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 a Boeing 767-223ER
with a maximum capacity of 181 passengers and 23,980 gallons of fuel,
lifts off from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts,
bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
Take-off was scheduled for 7:45.

There are supposed to be 92 victims on board American
Airlines Flight 11, yet when you add up the official death manifest
list that was published on CNN.com, there are only 86 victims.

The same goes for the other three flights of September 11th. Add up the
passenger and crew lists from all 4 flights of 911 and you have officially
266 people on board. Yet when one adds up the 4 official death manifest
lists published on CNN.com, there are only 229 names. Somehow 37 people
are missing from the 4 CNN.com official death manifest lists, including
all 19 of the hijackers. There is not even one Arabic name there. Why?http://911Timeline.net/36or37missingand70percentempty.htm

The 4 airliners of September 11th, 2 Boeing 767s and 2 Boeing 757s had
a total passenger seating capacity of 762 people. There are only 229 passengers
and crew members on the four death lists, so, how could these flights
possibly be 70% empty?http://911Timeline.net/36or37missingand70percentempty.htm

8:01 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 a Boeing 757-222
with a maximum capacity of 200 passengers and 11,489 gallons of fuel,
rolls from the gate in Newark International Airport, Newark, New Jersey
with 44 people aboard bound for San Francisco International Airport,
San Francisco, California. United Airlines Flight 93 will sit on the
ground for 41 minutes before taking off. There are supposed to be 44
victims on board, yet when you add up the official death manifest list
that was published on CNN.com, there are only 33 victims.

8:14 to 8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 goes
off course and is hijacked.

8:14 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 a Boeing 767-222
with a maximum capacity of 181 passengers and 23,980 gallons of fuel,
lifts off from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts,
bound for Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
Take-off was scheduled for 7:58. There are supposed to be 65 victims
on board, yet when you add up the official death manifest list that
was published on CNN.com, there are only 56 victims.

8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 transponder
signal stops transmitting Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) beacon
signal. If a pilot loses their transponder the air traffic controllers
(ATC) console immediately alerts him to this fact since he no longer
has the transponder code and altitude. This causes the controllers a
great deal of trouble, especially in the busiest airspace on earth,
the northeastern corridor.

After 6 minutes and 30 seconds of lost voice contact,
and now with the transponder signal stopped on American Airlines Flight
11, there is no excuse left, the FAA should have started to implement
Standard Intercept Procedures. They did for the late great golfer Payne
Stewart, after only a few minutes of lost voice contact from his Lear
jet. Why not now? Or did the FAA implement Standard Intercept Procedures
and tell NORAD between 8:14 to 8:20? Did NORAD then sit on (Stand Down)
this information for 26 to 32 minutes till they finally tell 102nd
Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts
to scramble at 8:46? Somewhere between 8:13:31 and 8:20 American Airlines
Flight 11 has been hijacked, and by 8:20 its transponder also is turned
off, and NORAD doesnt order Otis to scramble till 8:46.

8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 a Boeing 757-223
with a maximum capacity of 200 passengers and 11,489 gallons of fuel,
lifts off from Dulles International Airport about 30 miles west of Washington
D.C. and the Pentagon, bound for Los Angeles International Airport in
Los Angeles, California. Take-off was scheduled for 8:01. There are
supposed to be 64 victims on board, yet when you add up the official
death manifest list that was published on CNN.com, there are only 56
victims.

8:24:38 a.m.: The pilot of American Airlines Flight
11, John Ogonowski, or one of the hijackers activates the talk-back
button, enabling Boston ATC to hear a hijacker say to the passengers:
"We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning
to the airport. Nobody move." Apparently, one of the hijackers confused
the aircraft's radio with its public-address system. Air traffic control
responds, "Who's trying to call me?"

8:25 a.m.: Boston ATC notified several air traffic
control centers that a hijack is in progress with American Airlines
Flight 11. Boston air traffic control first lost communication with
American Airlines Flight 11 more than 11 minutes ago. What took them
so long to start to implement procedure? Why didnt they also notify
NORAD at this time? Or did they?

If they did follow procedure and notify NORAD at 8:25
and NORAD followed protocol and ordered the 102nd Fighter Wing of the
Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts to scramble
at say 8:26 two F-15s would have been airborne by no later than 8:32
these F-15s would have had at least 14 minutes and 26 seconds to
reach the WTC before American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the north side
of the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) at 8:46:26. If these two F-15s
were flying at top speed, 14 minutes and 26 seconds is exactly twice
the amount of time needed to reach the WTC. These two F-15s could have
been at the WTC in just over 7 minutes, or as early as 8:39. Even a
spokesperson for Otis said that their F-15s could reach the WTC in
10 to 12 minutes, which would have them there at 8:42 to 8:44.

These two F-15s could have easily intercepted American
Airlines Flight 11. If only Boston ATC, which notified several air traffic
control centers that a hijack is in progress with American Airlines
Flight 11 at 8:25, had also notified NORAD. Why didnt they? Or did
they follow procedure, and notify NORAD, and NORAD is lying about it.
Let me state that it is NORADs job to know every inch of the skies
over North America, so they must have known that American Airlines Flight
11 was hijacked somewhere between 8:14 and 8:20.

8:26 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 is heading westnorthwest,
its location is between Albany and Lake George, New York, when it suddenly
makes a 100 degree turn to the south and starts heading directly toward
New York City. American Airlines Flight 11 finds the Hudson River and
follows it all the way south till it impacts the north side of the North
Tower of the WTC.

Almost 40 miles north of the WTC on the Hudson River
is by far the number one terrorist target in the United States, Indian
Point and its 3 nuclear power stations, 2 of which are online. These
3 nuclear stations have accumulated 65 years worth of stockpiled highly
radioactive waste. Indian Point is only 24 miles north of the New York
City border. It is surrounded by the densest concentration of population
in the United States, the northeast corridor. Why did American Airlines
Flight 11 fly directly over the number one terrorist target in the United
States, Indian Point nuclear power stations, and not hit it? (read more
about this at 8:39 a.m.)

8:33:59 a.m.: Another transmission from American Airlines
Flight 11, "Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't
try to make any stupid moves."

8:37 a.m.: Flight controllers ask the United Airlines
Flight 175 pilots to look for the lost American Airlines Flight 11,
about 10 miles to the south. They respond that they can see it. They
are told to keep away from it. This incident is not included in The
New York Times flight controller transcript. Why?

8:39 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 flies directly
over the number one terrorist target in the United States, Indian Point
nuclear power stations. Indian Point has 3 nuclear power stations (1
is offline and the other 2 have been online since 1973 and 1976), which
are only 24 miles north of New York City (and about 40 miles north of
the WTC).

If American Airlines Flight 11 hits Indian Point correctly
in any of three different ways, they could have caused a meltdown and
a release of vast amounts of radiation. There are also a cumulative
65 operating years worth of highly radioactive waste stored at Indian
Point. Casualties could possibly be upwards of 20 million people prematurely
dieing from radiation poisoning. The whole northeast corridor from New
York City to Boston would instantly become a wasteland for thousands
of years.

Why did American Airlines Flight 11 jeopardize their
mission by flying another 7 plus minutes (when they could and should
have been intercepted by the USAF) down the Hudson River to hit the
WTC between the 94th and 98th floors where they ended up "only" killing
less than half of the 3,056 people that died, when they could have hit
their enemies number one target?

The mastermind behind these "terrorists" hijackers
would have soon figured out their best and only shot against the strongest
military foe in the world would have been to hit them first and hit
them as hard as you can. Why didn't they hit Indian Point?

If the terrorists were targeting the WTC, don't you
think they would have waited until around 11:00 when these buildings
were full with 50,000 plus people? And of course, to cause the most
deaths and destruction isn't it elementary to strike these buildings
as low as possible, which would have been around the 30th floor?

So, why did this well planned "terrorist" attack kill
only 3,056 people when they could have easily killed ten times that
many? This reasoning also goes along with the Pentagon attack. Why was
the Pentagon hit on the so-called "peaceful" west side, which was mostly
under construction as opposed to the command center east side of the
Pentagon?

If one plane didn't do the job at Indian Point, two
planes most definitely would have done the job. United Airlines Flight
175 also flew very close to Indian Point; it was literally within a
couple of minutes flying time.

If two planes didnt do the job (one should and two
will), a third plane, United Airlines Flight 93 a Boeing 757-222 will
lift off in 3 minutes from Newark International Airport in Newark, New
Jersey bound for San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco,
California. Newark International Airport is within 10 minutes flying
time of Indian Point.

So three of these airliners could have hit Indian Point within about
13 minutes of each other, between 8:39 and 8:52, if they had wanted
to. The whole northeast corridor from New York City to Boston would
instantly become a wasteland for thousands of years.

8:40 a.m. Nasty and Duff are the code names of the
two F-15 pilots from the 102nd Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National
Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts who would scramble after United
Airlines Flight 175. Nasty says that at this time, a colleague tells
him that a flight out of Boston has been hijacked, and to be on alert.
They put on their flight gear and get ready.

8:40 a.m.: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
notifies NORAD that American Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked. Even
NORAD officially admitted that the FAA told them about the hijacking
of American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:40. As mentioned earlier, American
Airlines Flight 11 lost voice contact with ATC at 8:13:31 so for 26
minutes and 29 seconds nothing has been done. American Airlines Flight
11 lost its transponder at 8:20 so for 20 minutes nothing has been
done. This doesnt happen.

OK, the FAA notifies NORAD that American Airlines Flight 11 has been
hijacked what does NORAD do? Do they immediately scramble the 102nd
Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts?
No they dont, they sit on this most vital information. Stand Down.

At 8:46 a.m. you will see what NORAD finally does with
this critically vital information.

8:41:32 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 last communication
with the New York ATC: We figured we'd wait to go to your center. We
heard a suspicious transmission on our departure from BOS [Boston] sounds
like someone keyed the mike and said everyone stay in your seats.

8:42 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 a Boeing 757-222
with a maximum capacity of 200 passengers and 11,489 gallons of fuel,
lifts off from Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey bound
for San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California.
Take-off was scheduled for 8:01. There are supposed to be 44 victims
on board, yet when you add up the official death manifest list that
was published on CNN.com, there are only 33 victims.

8:42 a.m.: An air traffic controller
says of United Airlines Flight 175, looks like he's heading southbound
but there's no transponder no nothing and no one's talking to him.8:43 a.m.: The FAA notifies NORAD that United
Airlines Flight 175 has been hijacked. NORAD has officially admitted
that the FAA told them about the hijacking of United Airlines Flight
175 at 8:43. So, now NORAD knows about two hijackings and American
Airlines Flight 11 has been barreling down on New York City since turning
south at 8:26, and is just 3 minutes away from impacting the WTC. What
does NORAD do with this new information? Do they immediately scramble
the 102nd Fighter Wing of the Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth,
Massachusetts? Again, no they dont, they sit on this most vital information
of now two hijacked airliners. Stand Down.

8:46 a.m.: NORAD orders the 102nd Fighter Wing of the
Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts to scramble
two of their F-15 fighters. This is from the 102nd Fighter Wing's mission
statement of September 11, 2001. "Our aircraft and their crews are on
continuous 24-hour, 365-day alert to guard our skies. The 102nd Fighter
Wing's area of responsibility includes over 500,000 square miles, 90
million people, and the major industrial centers of Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C."

NORAD, by their own account, held on to the most vital
information of American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking for at least 6
minutes before ordering Otis to scramble. NORAD, by their own account,
held on to the most vital information of United Airlines Flight 175
hijacking for at least 3 minutes before ordering Otis to scramble.

NORAD may have held on to the vital information of
American Airlines Flight 11 for perhaps 8 minutes, maybe 10 minutes
(see 8:36 a.m. statement by NORAD spokesman, Major Mike Snyder), possibly
up to 26 minutes (see 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 transponder
signal stopped transmitting its IFF beacon signal) and let us not forget
that the last voice transmission of American Airlines Flight 11 with
Boston air traffic control occurred at 8:13:31, so maybe NORAD had over
32 minutes before they notified Otis to scramble their two F-15s.

How could NORAD possibly hold on to the 8:40 information
of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking, and not immediately scrambled
Otis? How could NORAD possibly hold on to the 8:43 information of the
United Airlines Flight 175 hijacking, and not have immediately scrambled
Otis? How could NORAD, by their own account, hold on to the most vital
information of both of these hijackings for three and six full minutes,
before notifying Otis to scramble? Stand Down.

Knowing that New York City and Washington D.C. are
far and away the top two cities in the United States that would be targeted
by terrorists, dont you think we would have also ordered Langley AFB
to scramble at 8:46 a.m. to protect Washington D.C.? NORAD says they
actually waited till 9:24 a.m. to order Langley AFB to scramble. Thirty-eight
minutes went by before anyone bothers to order fighters to scramble
to protect Washington D.C.? No way. This is the big time Smoking Gun
Stand Down.

8:46:26 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11 impacts the
north side of the North Tower (1 World Trade Center) of the WTC between
the 94th and 98th floors. American Airlines Flight 11 was flying at
a speed of 490 miles per hour (MPH).

When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower,
"it set up vibrations which were transmitted through the building, through
its foundation, and into the ground," says Lerner-Lam. Those vibrations,
as indicated by seismographs at Lamont-Doherty and other locations,
were the equivalent of a magnitude 0.9 earthquake, one too small to
be felt.

8:47 a.m.: The FAA informed NORAD of American Airlines
Flight 11 striking the World Trade Center. NORAD says it doesnt tell
the two F-15 pilots now scrambling to take-off from Otis that American
Airlines Flight 11 has hit the WTC until 8:57. Why not? Especially when
there is another hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175, so close
to New York City -- and at 8:49 it turns and heads straight on for New
York City?

8:47 a.m.: NYC Fire Battalion Chief Joe Pfeiffer from
the 7th Battalion puts out an emergency call stating that American Airlines
Flight 11 impacting the north side of the North Tower (1 World Trade
Center) was no accident. The plane's impact was clearly a deliberate
attack an intentional act of mass death and devastation.

As the small video crew (who shot the only video of
American Airlines Flight 11 impacting the WTC the fireman video) and
firemen that had eye-witnessed the first plane hit the WTC were racing
to the location, Chief Pfeiffer sounded red alerts over the radio and
phone; specifically stating that what they witnessed was a "direct attack"
and that the airliner was clearly being directed straight at the WTC
and the incident was definitely not any kind of accident.

8:48 a.m.: The first news reports appear on TV and
radio that a plane may have crashed into the WTC.

8:49 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 now deviates
from its assigned flight path.

8:50:51 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 last radio
communication, about 285 miles west of the Pentagon.

8:52
a.m.: Two F-15 Eagles have scrambled and are airborne from the 102nd
Fighter Wing of Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
An F-15 has a top speed of 1875+ MPH. According to NORAD, Otis is 153
miles eastnortheast of the WTC. They are airborne within 6 minutes of
their 8:46 scramble orders. Good job. So, 38 minutes after American
Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked we finally have fighters in the
air. But they still dont know American Airlines Flight 11 has crashed
into the WTC or that United Airlines Flight 175 has turned and has been
heading straight toward New York City now for 3 minutes. Why not? Stand
Down.

8:53 a.m.: A flight controller says to other airplanes
in the sky about United Airlines Flight 175, "We may have a hijack.
We have some problems over here right now."

8:55 a.m.: Barbara Olson, a passenger on American
Airlines Flight 77, "allegedly called" her husband, Solicitor
General Theodore Olson at the Justice Department. He is watching the
WTC news on TV. She tells him, ''they had box cutters and knives. They
rounded up the passengers at the back of the plane.'' She asks him,
"What should I tell the pilot to do?" She gets cuts off; he
calls the Justice Department's command center to alert them of the hijacking.
She calls back and says the plane is turning around. She appears to
have been the only person on American Airlines Flight 77 to call someone
on the ground. Why is she the only person who "allegedly called"
from American Airlines Flight 77?"

8:57 a.m. The FAA formally notified the military that
American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the WTC. Until then, the two
F-15s fighters from Otis did not know the plane had crashed -- Yet
at 8:47 a.m. NORAD had been notified. Why does it take over 10 minutes
to inform the two F-15 pilots of this? Do the two F-15 pilots know United
Airlines Flight 175 has changed course, and for the last eight minutes
has been heading directly for New York City? Stand Down.

9:00 a.m.: Last radar reading on United Airlines Flight
175 is observed at an altitude of 18,000 feet, descending, with a ground
speed of 480 knots.

9:00 a.m. The FAA starts contacting all airliners to
warn them of the hijacking.

9:00 a.m.: The Pentagon moves its alert status up one
notch from normal to Alpha. It stays on Alpha until after American Airlines
Flight 77 hits the Pentagon.

9:01 a.m.: Bush
later makes the following statement. "And I was sitting outside the
classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the
TV was obviously on, and I used to fly myself, and I said, 'There's
one terrible pilot.' And I said, 'It must have been a horrible accident.'
But I was whisked off from there -- I didn't have much time to think
about it." Bush could not have possibly seen the first plane (American
Airlines Flight 11) hit the WTC, because the only video showing this
was not shown on television till later in the day. So how could he have
possibly seen and said this?

9:02:54 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 impacts the
south side of the South Tower of the WTC between the 78th and 84th floors
at a speed of over 500 MPH. Parts of the plane including an engine leave
the building from its north side, to be found on the ground up to six
blocks away.

When United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower,
"it set up vibrations which were transmitted through the building, through
its foundation, and into the ground," says Lerner-Lam. Those vibrations,
as indicated by seismographs at Lamont-Doherty and other locations,
were the equivalent of a magnitude 0.7 earthquake.

NORAD says that when United Airlines Flight 175 impacts
the WTC at 9:02:54, the two F-15's from Otis are still 71 miles away.
This means their average flight speed was only 23.9% of their top speed
in trying to intercept United Airlines Flight 175.

Otis is 153 miles from WTC. F-15's have a top speed
of 1875+ MPH. Minus 71 miles left from 153 miles equals 82 miles covered
in the 11 minutes from 8:52 take-off to 9:03. Sixty minutes divided
by 11 minutes equals 5.45, times this by the 82 miles covered, equals
447.3 MPH. divided by 1875 MPH equals 23.9% of their top speed. How
could these two F-15s possibly be going less than one quarter of their
top speed in trying to intercept United Airlines Flight 175? How? Stand
Down.

The following passages are from a BBC article published
on August 30, 2002. Two of the pilots patrolling northeast America told
the programme how they struggled to get to New York as fast as possible
after the first plane had hit the World Trade Center. Pilots "Duff"
and "Nasty" recalled they were only minutes away when the second plane
hit the towers. Pilot Duff said: "For a long time I wondered what would
have happened if we had been scrambled in time. "We've been over the
flight a thousand times in our minds and I don't know what we could
have done to get there any quicker."

Perhaps if they flew a little faster than 23.9% of their
top speed is how.

Now the only airliner left in the sky with its IFF
transponder signal off -- has just made a 180 degree turn over southern
Ohio / northeastern Kentucky and has been heading directly back to Washington
D.C. and The Pentagon since 8:59 a.m. -- is American Airlines Flight
77. Why didnt these two F-15s that were 71 miles from NYC and the
WTC, immediately redirect to intercept the only dangerous airliner now
in the sky, American Airlines Flight 77?

These two F-15s had 34 minutes to reach Washington
D.C. before American Airlines Flight 77 hits the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.
The mission of these two F-15s from the 102nd Fighter Wing of the Otis
Air National Guard Base is to protect the skies from Washington D.C.
to the north. The F-15 has a top speed of 1875+ MPH, so they could have
closed the 300 or so miles from their current position to Washington
D.C. in just about 11 minutes. At top speed they could have been at
the Pentagon 23 minutes before American Airlines Flight 77 hits it.

Even if they were flying at the same speed NORAD says
that they covered in the last 71 miles till they reach the WTC (532.5
MPH or only 28.4% of top speed) they would have beaten American Airlines
Flight 77 to the Pentagon. Why didnt these two F-15s directly fly
to intercept the only known airliner still in the sky that is hijacked,
and heading directly for the nations capitol?

Still, much worse, why didnt these two F-15s upon
reaching the WTC at 9:11 and now knowing that American Airlines Flight
77 has been heading dead on for Washington D.C. for 12 minutes, finally
try to intercept? The WTC is about 250 miles from the Pentagon. They
still have 26 minutes to intercept American Airlines Flight 77 before
the Pentagon gets hit at 9:37. All they have to do is to fly only 576.9
MPH or 30.8% of their top speed to beat American Airlines Flight 77
to the Pentagon. What do we pay these guys to do?

Still, unbelievably worse, these two F-15s could have
waited in New York City till 9:26 before heading down to protect Washington
D.C. and the Pentagon. By 9:26 American Airlines Flight 77 has now been
heading directly back to Washington D.C. for 27 minutes, it is the only
airliner in the sky with its transponder signal off, and has been off
course for 30 minutes. If these F-15s were flying at top speed, they
could be at the Pentagon in less than 10 minutes. They can leave New
York City at 9:26 and still beat American Airlines Flight 77 to the
Pentagon by one minute. Why didnt these F-15s leave at any time between
9:03 and 9:26 to intercept American Airlines Flight 77, the only airliner
in the sky with its transponder signal off, and also off course and
heading straight do Washington D.C.? Why, NORAD? Stand Down.

There is a very interesting video of what looks like
a possible F-15 streaking by the WTC just as United Airlines Flight
175 impacts the South Tower of the WTC. Why isnt anyone talking about
this video?

9:03 a.m.: Boston air traffic control center halts
traffic from its airports to all New York area airspace.

9:05 a.m.: Andrew Card walks up to Bush while he
is listening to a Goat Story with 16 second graders in Sandra Kay Danielss
class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Card
whispers in his ear "A second plane has hit the World Trade Center.
America is under attack." Bush (commander-and-chief?) keeps listening
to this Goat Story with these children for at least 7 minutes, and perhaps
as long as 18 minutes. Why he didn't excuse himself from these children
right away, and immediately address this national emergency, is totally
illogical and unexplainable.

There is no way this should have happened. What of course should have
happened, was as soon as the secret service found out about United Airlines
Flight 175 impacting the WTC (now knowing it was a "terrorist"
act), they would have immediatly grabbed Bush and brought him to an
undisclosed location. There is no way the secret service leaves Bush
in a place (Emma E. Booker Elementary
School) where
everyone knows he is. Stand Down.

9:05 a.m.: West Virginia flight control notices
a new eastbound plane entering their radar with no radio contact and
no transponder identification. They are not sure if it is American Airlines
Flight 77. Supposedly they wait another 19 minutes before notifying
NORAD about it.

Why hasnt NORAD scrambled any
fighters to protect Washington D.C. by 9:05? How could they not have?
Two airliners have already hit the WTC. Nine minutes ago the transponder
on American Airlines Flight 77 was shut off and it made a 180 degree
turn and has been heading directly for Washington D.C. for 6 minutes.
Perhaps now would be a good time to remember that New York City and
Washington D.C. are far and away the top two cities in the United States
that would be targeted by terrorists. Why hasnt NORAD scrambled any
fighters to protect Washington D.C. by 9:05?Stand Down.

9:06 a.m.: Order to halt traffic is expanded to include
the entire northeast from Washington to Cleveland. FAA's air traffic
control center outside Washington D.C. notifies all air traffic facilities
nationwide of the suspected hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11.

9:06 a.m.: The FAA formally notified the military that
United Airlines Flight 175 had been hijacked.

9:08 a.m.: FAA orders all aircraft to leave New York
area airspace and orders all New York-bound planes nationwide to stay
on the ground.

9:10 a.m. to 9:20 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 was
hijacked.

9:11 a.m.: The two F-15 Eagles from Otis Air National
Guard station in Falmouth; Massachusetts finally make it to NYC and
the WTC. So, it takes these two F-15s, which have a top speed of 1875+
MPH, 19 minutes to cover the 153 miles from Otis to the WTC. This means
their average flight speed from Otis to the WTC was only 483.2 MPH or
just 25.8% of their top speed. A little math exposes these window dressing
fighters for what they are. Thank you NORAD for your September 18, 20001
Press Release. Stand Down.

9:12 a.m.: The FAA formally notified the military that
United Airlines Flight 175 had crashed into the WTC.

9:15 a.m.: American Airlines orders no new takeoffs
in the United States.

9:16 a.m. to 9:20: The FAA notifies NORAD that United
Airlines Flight 93 has been hijacked. (Reported as 9:20 a.m. in the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) No fighters are scrambled in specific response,
now or later. There is the possibility the fighters sent after American
Airlines Flight 77 later headed towards United Airlines Flight 93. NORAD's
own timeline inexplicably fails to say when the FAA told them about
the hijack. This is the only flight NORAD fails to provide this data
for. Why? Stand Down.

9:17 a.m.: The FAA shuts down all New York City area
airports.

9:20 a.m.: United Airlines orders no new takeoffs in
the United States.

9:21 a.m.: New York City Port Authority orders all
bridges and tunnels in the New York City area closed.

9:23 a.m.: Bush talks privately
with Cheney, his National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, the head
of the FBI, Robert Mueller and Governor George Pataki of New York. Why
does Bush wait from 9:05 (when Card tells him of United Airlines Flight
175 hitting the WTC) till 9:23 to finally call? He still does not give
the authority to the fighters to shoot down any hostile airliners (fighters
do not need his OK to intercept that should have of course happen
automatically [but didnt -- or it was IGNORAD]
his orders are only needed to shoot down a commercial airliner). What
is he waiting for?

9:24 a.m.: The FAA notifies NORAD that American
Airlines Flight 77 has been hijacked. The FAA lost contact with American
Airlines Flight 77 when the transponder signal stops at 8:56 a.m. --
Why does it take 33 minutes for the FAA to tell NORAD that American
Airlines Flight 77 has been hijacked? Impossible. Stand Down.

9:24 a.m.: NORAD orders the 1st Fighter Wing from Langley
Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia to scramble two, possibly three
F-16 fighters. This time NORAD does not sit on this vital information
for six minutes (or more) before notifying Langley AFB (like they did
before they scrambled Otis). Langley is 130 miles south of Washington
D.C. and the Pentagon. The F-16 has a top speed of 1500 MPH.

Why wasnt Langley AFB scrambled at 8:20 or 8:40 or
8:46:26 or at the very least at 9:02:54? How could NORAD possibly have
waited the 21 minutes from the time United Airlines Flight 175 hits
the South Tower of the WTC at 9:02:54 before finally scrambling Langley
at 9:24? Waiting these 21 extra minutes to finally scramble Langley
is the real smoking gun Stand Down that no one can get around.

Inconceivably, Andrews Air Force Base, with its two
fighters wings only about 11 miles from the Pentagon never got off the
ground, till after everything was over. They must have been told to
Stand Down. This Stand Down that happened at Andrews AFB is the same
thing that happened with the at least 35 Air Stations that were easily
within distance to protect us of all of these hijackings. They were
all told to Stand Down.

9:25 a.m.: Air traffic controllers inform the United
States Secret Service that American Airlines Flight 77 is approaching
Washington D.C.

9:26 a.m.: The FAA halts takeoffs nationwide. All airborne
international flights are told to land in Canada.

9:26 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 - Passenger,
Barbara K. Olson again calls her husband, Solicitor General Theodore
Olson at the Justice Department to tell him about the hijacking and
to report that the passengers and pilots were held in the back of the
plane. Again she is the only person who makes a call from American Airlines
Flight 77. Isnt it very strange that is she the only person to call,
not once but twice?

9:28 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 -- An open microphone
aboard reveals someone in the cockpit saying, "Get out of here!"

9:28 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, "there are the
first audible signs of problems, in background cockpit noise." Air traffic
controllers hear the sound of screaming and scuffling over an open mike.
They then hear hijackers speaking in Arabic to each other. Yet this
is at least 8 minutes and maybe 12 minutes after the hijackers had taken
over the cockpit and done something to cause the FAA to notify NORAD
of United Airlines Flight 93's hijacking.

9:30 a.m.: Two, possibly three F-16 Fighting Falcons
code-named Huntress take off from Langley AFB headed at first toward
at NYC. A couple of minutes into their mission, according to General
Haugen "A person came on the radio and identified themselves as being
with the Secret Service" and said, "I want you to protect the White
House at all costs." The F-16s laid in a new course and vectored to
Washington D.C. Since both Washington D.C. and New York City are both
north of Langley, and this happened within a couple of minutes of take-off,
this was not a factor in why these F-16 fighters were flying so slow.

Why were these fighters headed to NYC when American
Airlines Flight 77 has been headed directly for Washington D.C. for
the last 31 minutes, and with their communication and transponder turned
off for 34 minutes? There are no airliners headed for NYC or anywhere
else with their communication and transponders turned off. Also, at
9:25 air traffic controllers have already informed the United States
Secret Service in Washington D.C. that American Airlines Flight 77 is
approaching them very fast. So why are these F-16s first flying toward
NYC? Stand Down.

9:30 a m.: Bush, speaking to the nation from Emma E.
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, says the country has
suffered an "apparent terrorist attack" and "a national tragedy." He
would chase down, "those folks who committed this act." Bush also said,
"Terrorism against our nation will not stand." It was an echo of "This
will not stand," the words his father, George H. W. Bush, had used a
few days after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990-in Bush's opinion,
one of his father's finest moments.

Also, during this address to the
country Bush promised a full investigation into the attack. Well here
we are 16 months later, after everything Bush could possibly do to stop
an investigation, and we are finally getting a so-called 911 investigation.
That Henry
Kissinger and George Mitchell quit as
chair and vice chair is very interesting. Of course, having appointed
killer Kissinger to lead the 911 investigation in the first place was
like saying, welcome to the Twilight Zone. Did Kissinger quit because
some of his clients were about to be exposed and tried by him? A little
conflict of interest Henry?

This address to the country should have been said at
least 15 to 20 minutes earlier. But of course he had much more important
business to attend to, he was listening to the Goat Story with the 16
second graders from 9:05 till at least 9:12 and possibly as long as
9:23.

85) 9:30 a.m.: United Airlines begins landing all of
its flights inside the United States.

9:32 a.m.: Secret Service agents burst into Cheney's
White House office. They carry him under his arms -- nearly lifting
him off the ground -- and take him to the security of the underground
bunker in the White House basement. What took them so long?

9:32 a.m.: The New York Stock Exchange closed.

9:33 a.m.: According to The New York Times, American
Airlines Flight 77 was lost at 8:56 when it turned off its transponder,
and stayed lost until now. Washington air traffic control sees a fast
moving blip on their radar at this time and sends a warning to Dulles
Airport in Washington. Is it conceivable that an airplane could be lost
inside United States air space for 37 minutes? Stand Down.

9:35 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 goes off course
near Cleveland, Ohio where it makes a 135 degree turn, and is now headed
to the southeast. United Airlines Flight 93 is 375 miles from Newark,
New Jersey and 280 miles from where it was now headed, Washington D.C.

Also reported about United Airlines Flight 93: ABC
News has learned that shortly before the plane changed directions, someone
in the cockpit radioed in and asked the FAA for a new flight plan, with
a final destination of Washington. This should have been a big red flag,
a problem aircraft usually diverts to the nearest field. Did the Pilot
do this to signal Air Traffic Control?

9:35 a.m.: American Airlines begins landing all of
its flights inside the United States.

9:36 a.m.: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
instructs a military C130 aircraft that had just departed Andrews Air
Force base to try to identify American Airlines Flight 77. The C130
reports it is a 767 and it is moving low and very fast.

9:37 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 is lost from
radar screens and impacts the western side of the Pentagon. The section
of the Pentagon hit consists mainly of newly renovated, unoccupied offices.
The Pentagon says American Airlines Flight 77 hits them at 9:37. Other
published reports have American Airlines Flight 77 striking at 9:40
to 9:43; The New York Times even published 9:45. (The photos taken before
the Pentagon "E Section" collapses at 10:10 a.m. show a hole that sure
does not look like a Boeing 757-223 hit it. There were no holes in the
Pentagon where both jet engines would have gone through? Why?)

At 9:37 NORAD says the F-16s from Langley were still
105 miles and 12 minutes away. Incredibly, this means their average
flight speed was only 14.3% of their top speed in trying to intercept
United Airlines Flight 175 before it hits the Pentagon. If these F-16s
flew at top speed, they would have been there just after 9:37.

Langley is 130 miles from the Pentagon. F-16's have
a top speed of 1500 MPH. Minus 105 miles left from 130 miles equals
25 miles covered in the 7 minutes from 9:30 take-off to 9:37. 60 minutes
divided by 7 minutes equals 8.57, times this by the 25 miles covered,
equals 214.3 MPH. divided by 1500 MPH equals 14.3% of their top speed.
How could these two F-15s possibly be going one seventh of their top
speed in trying to intercept American Airlines Flight 77? Even the story
about first flying to NYC does not account for this unbelievably slow
speed because they got the message to redirect to Washington D.C. within
a couple of minutes of take-off, and NYC and Washington D.C. are almost
exactly the same direction (north) from Langley. Stand Down.

Three more of the 7 air stations on full alert were
within range of Washington D.C. Tyndall AFB in Panama City, Florida
is 800 miles from Washington D.C., from the time they scramble and flying
at top speed, they could have reached Washington D.C. in 35 to 40 minutes.
Homestead ARB in Homestead, Florida is 1000 miles from Washington D.C.
from the time they scramble and flying at top speed, they could have
reached Washington D.C. in 45 to 50 minutes. Ellington ANG in Houston,
Texas is 1250 miles from Washington D.C. from the time they scramble
and flying at top speed, they could have reached Washington D.C. in
55 to 60 minutes.

Remember at 8:40 the FAA notifies NORAD that American
Airlines Flight 11 has been hijacked and at 8:43 a.m. the FAA notifies
NORAD that United Airlines Flight 175 has been hijacked. So at 8:43
a full 54 minutes before American Airlines Flight 77 hits the Pentagon,
NORAD admits to knowing about these two airlines being hijacked. With
a 54 minute start -- besides of course Otis ANG who were already in
the air (at 8:52) and Langley AFB fighters (finally ordered to scramble
at 9:24 airborne at 9:30), both Tyndall AFB and Homestead ARB fighters
could have beaten American Airlines Flight 77 to the Pentagon and Ellington
ANG fighters had an outside chance. Of course both air stations in Florida,
Tyndall AFB and Homestead ARB, should have been sent to protect Air
Force One in Sarasota -- but incredibly they werent sent there either.

At 8:56 the transponder on American Airlines Flight
77 stops sending the IFF beacon. This is 41 minutes before it hits the
Pentagon. Again besides of course Otis ANG and Langley AFB fighters,
if ordered to scramble at 8:56 Tyndall AFB fighters could have still
beaten American Airlines Flight 77 to the Pentagon. Stand Down.

9:40 a.m.: Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta,
summoned by the White House to the bunker, was on an open line to the
Federal Aviation Administration operations center, monitoring Flight
77 as it hurtled toward Washington, with radar tracks coming every seven
seconds. Reports came that the plane was 50 miles out, 30 miles out,
10 miles out-until word reached the bunker that there had been an explosion
at the Pentagon.

Mineta shouted into the phone to Monte Belger at the
FAA: "Monte, bring all the planes down." It was an unprecedented order
-- there were 4,546 airplanes in the air at the time. Belger, the FAA's
acting deputy administrator, amended Mineta's directive to take into
account the authority vested in airline pilots. "We're bringing them
down per pilot discretion," Belger told the secretary.

The FAA stops all flight operations at U.S. airports
and orders all planes in the air to land at the nearest airport. No
civilian aircraft are allowed to lift off. This is the first time all
commercial flights in the U.S. have been suspended. Only military and
medical flights are allowed to fly.

9:42 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 passenger Mark
Bingham calls his mother. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham," he said, nervously.
"I want to let you know that I love you. I'm calling from the plane.
We've been taken over. There are three men that say they have a bomb."

97) 9:45 a.m.: Bush's motorcade leaves the Emma E.
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida headed for Air Force One
at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

9:45 a.m. to 9:48 a.m.: The Capitol and the White House
are evacuated.

9:47 a.m.: Commanders worldwide were ordered to raise
their threat alert status four notches to "Delta", the highest level,
to defend United States facilities. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
raised the defense condition signaling of the United States offensive
readiness-to DefCon 3, the highest it had been since the Arab-Israeli
war in 1973. United States officials also sent a message to the Russians,
who were planning a military exercise not far from Alaska, urging them
to rethink their plans.

9:49 a.m.: The F-16s from Langley AFB finally arrive
over Washington, D.C. to perform Combat Air Patrol over the city. It
takes these F-16s 19 minutes to reach Washington D.C. from Langley
AFB which is about 130 miles to the south.

If these F-16s were flying at top speed it should
have taken them just over 7 minutes to reach the Pentagon. They should
have been there at about the same time the Pentagon is hit by American
Airlines Flight 77, at 9:37.

By arriving in Washington D.C. at 9:49, that would
mean these F-16s average flight speed was only 410.5 MPH. This means
their average flight speed was only 27.4% of their top speed in trying
to protect our nations capital. Langley AFB is 130 miles from the Pentagon
and F-16's have a top speed of 1500 MPH. 60 minutes divided by 19 minutes
= 3.16 x 130 miles = 410.5 MPH divided by 1500 MPH = 27.4%.

These F-16s took-off at 9:30, this is 43 minutes after
American Airlines 11 impacts the North Tower of the WTC and 27 minutes
after United Airlines Flight 175 slams into the South Tower of the WTC.
Knowing this, these F-16s fly at only 14.3% (overall 27.4%) of their
top speed in trying to intercept American Airlines Flight 77 and protect
our nations capital, Washington D.C. How could that possibly be?

Why were all of these ultra-sophisticated fighter jets
averaging flight speeds only one quarter of their top speed when sent
to intercept hostile aircraft and protect New York City and our nation's
Capital, Washington D.C.? What exactly is the purpose of these fighter
jets being able to go 1875+ MPH and 1500 MPH, yet when the United States
is being attacked and needs them the most they are only somehow capable
of doing one quarter of their top speed? Stand Down.

The United States Air Force is the most technologically
advanced, and the most dominate military force ever known to man, and
yet we didnt have any other fighters on routine patrols or training
missions anywhere within 1000 miles of New York City or Washington D.
C. that morning? I have talked to a few people in the Air Force, and
this is totally impossible. There are always fighters up on routine
patrols or training missions. So where were they?

And lastly, why didn't the Air Force follow procedure
and immediately scramble to monitor any of these 4 flights like they
did for the late great golfer Payne Stewart when his Lear jet went off
course? This is not Oshkosh, Wisconsin we are talking about protecting
here, it is New York City and the Capital of the United States, Washington
D.C., and its air defenses were left total unguarded for one hour and
twenty-three minutes (from 8:14 to 9:37) (or one hour and thirty-five
minutes -- F-15 arrived in DC at 9:49) by the same country who have
the greatest air superiority by far ever known. What type of a preposterous
wag of the NORAD tale is this?

Both of these groups of fighters, the F-15s out of
Otis, and the F-16s out of Langley were put in the air merely as window
dressing. To make the public actually think they were valiantly trying
to intercept these 4 hijacked planes. There is only one explanation
for this -- our Air Force was ordered to Stand Down on 911.

9:55 a.m.: Bush arrives at the Sarasota-Bradenton International
Airport and boards Air Force One.

9:55 a.m.: Inside his White House bunker, a military
aide asks Cheney, "There is a plane 80 miles out. There is a fighter
in the area. Should we engage?" Cheney immediately says, "Yes." As the
fighter gets nearer to United Airlines Flight 93, he is asked the same
thing twice more, and responds yes both times.

9:58 a.m.: Confrontation with the hijackers and the
passengers begins aboard United Airlines Flight 93. Emergency dispatcher
in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on Flight 93. The passenger
says: "We are being hijacked!"

9:58 a.m.: A frantic male passenger onboard United
Airlines Flight 93 called the 911 emergency number, he told the operator,
named Glen Cramer, that he had locked himself inside one of the toilets.
Cramer told the AP, in a report that was widely broadcast on September
11th, that the passenger had spoken for one minute. "We're being hijacked,
we're being hijacked!" the man screamed into his mobile phone. "We confirmed
that with him several times," Cramer said, "and we asked him to repeat
what he said. He was very distraught. He said he believed the plane
was going down. He did hear some sort of an explosion and saw white
smoke coming from the plane, but he didn't know where. And then we lost
contact with him." This was the last cell phone call made from any passengers
on any of the hijacked planes.

9:59 a.m.: Air Force One Departs Sarasota-Bradenton
International Airport, Sarasota, Florida bound for Washington D.C. Air
Force One departed with no extra military protection. This is totally
impossible. Two of the 7 military air stations we had on full alert
to protect the continental United States that day were based in Florida.
Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead is 185 miles and the Tyndall
Air Force Base in Panama City is 235 miles from Sarasota and Air Force
One.

These two air stations should have been ordered to
scramble their fighters at 8:20 or 8:40 or 8:43 or 8:46:26 or 9:02:54
or 9:24 or at the very least at 9:37. From the time these two Air stations
should have been scrambled and flying at top speed, both of these air
stations fighters could have been in Sarasota within 16 to 18 minutes
to protect Air Force One. Even if both Air stations waited on the ground
with their 4 fighters till the Pentagon gets hit at 9:37, all 4 fighters
could have scrambled and been at Sarasota 4 to 6 minutes before Air
Force One takes-off at 9:59. Where were the fighters from both of these
air stations? Did both of these air stations have something better to
do that day than protect Air Force One? Please, this just does not happen.
Why is no one else in the world asking this question? Stand Down.

Also, is the place to be in the air when there are
still a couple of thousand airliners in the air deviating from their
normal flight plans to land, and who knew then how many of them were
hostile or not?

Also, please take a look at the
August 30, 2002 BBC article which states: In the immediate aftermath
of the terror attacks US fighter planes took to the skies to defend
America from any further attacks. Their mission was to protect pResident
George W. Bush and to intercept any hijacked aircraft heading to other
targets in the US. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2222205.stm

9:59:04 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center
suddenly collapses, plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud
of dust and debris quickly fills lower Manhattan. It is later explained
that the collapse was not directly caused by the impact, but the intense
heat caused by the fire fueled by the jet's fuel weakening the steel
support beams of the concrete floors. The WTC towers were built to withstand
a 707 being flown into them. A 767 carries almost the same amount of
fuel as a 707.

Seismographs at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, 21 miles north of the WTC,
recorded very interesting seismic activity on September 11, 2001 that
has still not been explained.

While the aircraft crashes caused minimal earth shaking,
significant earthquakes with unusual spikes occurred at the beginning
of each collapse. The Palisades seismic data recorded a 2.1 magnitude
earthquake during the 10-second collapse of the South Tower at 9:59:04
and a 2.3 quake during the 9-second collapse of the North Tower at 10:28:31.

The Palisades seismic record shows that -- as the collapses
began -- a huge seismic "spikes" marked the moment the greatest energy
went into the ground. The strongest jolts were both registered at the
beginning of the collapses, well before the falling debris struck the
earth.

These unexplained "spikes" in the seismic data tends
to lend credence to the theory that perhaps a massive explosion(s) in
the lowest level of the basements where the supporting steel columns
of the WTC met the bedrock caused the collapses.

Also, the collapses of the south tower at 9:59:04 took
only 10 seconds while the collapse of the north tower at 10:28:31 took
only 9 seconds, this is only slightly more than a free fall from the
same height, indicating that there was very little resistance. Yet the
floors themselves are quite robust, each one is 39" thick; the top 4"
is a poured concrete slab, with interlocking vertical steel trusses
underneath. This steel would absorb a lot of kinetic energy by crumpling
as one floor fell onto another. So how did both of the towers fall so
quickly?

10:00 a.m.: Bill Wright is flying a small plane when
an air traffic controller asks him to look around outside his window.
He sees United Airlines Flight 93 three miles away - close enough to
see the United Airlines colors. Air traffic control asks him the plane's
altitude, and then commands him to get away from the plane and land
immediately. Wright saw the plan rock back and forth three or four times
before he flew from the area. He speculates that the hijackers were
trying to throw off the attacking passengers.

10:00 a.m.: The NRC tells all nuclear power stations
to go to the highest level of alert.

10:01 a.m.: The FAA orders F-16 fighters to scramble
from Toledo, Ohio. Although the base has no fighters on stand-by alert
status, it manages to put fighters in the air 16 minutes later, a "phenomenal"
response time - but still 11 minutes after the last hijacked plane has
crashed.

One interesting aspect is that NORAD has explained
that it didn't scramble fighters from bases nearer to the hijacked planes
because they only used bases in the NORAD defensive network (Seven bases
were on fully armed alert covering the continental United States). Yet
this Toledo base wasn't part of that network, so why weren't planes
in this base and other bases scrambled an hour or more earlier? Could
it be that they were scrambled earlier, and that it was one of these
F-16's that tailed Flight 93? While it hasn't been reported in the media
yet, note this recent claim by a seismologist that there was a sonic
boom in Western Pennsylvania at 9:22. Could that have been a fighter
tracking United Airlines Flight 93?

10:02 a.m.: After a review of radar tapes, a radar
signal of United Airlines Flight 93 is detected near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

10:03 a.m.: According to the FBI, the cockpit voice
recorder stops and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, in Somerset county, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

10:06:05 a.m.: According to seismic data, United Airlines
Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in Somerset county,
about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. This is also 124 miles or 15
minutes away at 500 MPH from Washington D.C. An eyewitness reports seeing
a white plane resembling a fighter jet circling the site just after
the crash.

The F-16's from Langley AFB arrived in Washington D.C
at 9:49 a.m. The F-16 has a top speed of 1500 MPH. After the Pentagon
gets hit by American Airlines Flight 77 at 9:37, there is only one airliner
left in the sky with its transponder signal off, and once again heading
directly for Washington D.C., and that is United Airlines Flight 93.
Flying at top speed these F-16s could have intercepted United Airlines
Flight 93 within 5 to 8 minutes depending on when they would have left.
Why didnt these F-16s try to intercept United Airlines Flight 93?
How could they not go after the only threat in the sky yet once again?
Stand Down.

Listen to what a former Pentagon air traffic controller
says "All those years ago when I was at the Pentagon, this wouldn't
have happened. ATC Radar images were (and are) available in the understructures
of the Pentagon, and any commercial flight within 300 miles of Washington
D.C. that made an abrupt course change toward Washington D.C., or turned
off their transponder and refused to communicate with ATC, would have
been intercepted at supersonic speeds within minutes by fighters out
of Andrews AFB. Why there were no fighters from Andrews up baffles me.
If we could get fighters notified, scrambled, and airborne within about
6 minutes from Andrews AFB then, we could now."

Shortly after 911, a flight controller in New Hampshire
ignores a ban on air traffic controllers speaking to the media, and
it is reported he claims "that an F-16 fighter closely pursued United
Airlines Flight 93... the F-16 made 360-degree turns to remain close
to the commercial jet, the controller said. 'He must've seen the whole
thing,' the controller said of the F-16 pilot's view of Flight 93's
crash."

What happened to our first amendment?
Where are all of the free and open debates in the United States Questioning
September 11th? I, Mark Elsis will debate anyone or any panel on this
issue. Does any formidable opponent dare to debate me about what really
happened on September 11, 2001?

xoxoxoxo

JFK Assassination Stand Down

Army Aid To Help Protect President Kennedy Was RefusedA Stand Down on November 22, 1963 -- A Stand Down on
September 11, 2001

Trained U.S. Army Intelligence
Units were told their assisstance was not needed in Dallas during the
JFK visit. William McKinney, a former member of the crack 112th Military
Intelligence Group at 4th Army Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, Texas,
has revealed that both Col. Maximillian Reich and his deputy, Lt. Col.
Joel Cabaza, protested violently when they were told to "Stand
Down" rather than to report with their units for duty in augmentation
of the Secret Service in Dallas. McKinney said, "All the Secret
Service had to do was nod and these units [which had been trained at
the Army's top Intelligence school at Camp Holabird, Maryland] would
have performed their normal function of Protection for the President
in Dallas."

The 315th, the Texas unit which would have been involved if its support
had not been turned down, had records in its files, according to McKinney,
on Lee Harvey Oswald. The 315th had a Dallas office and its records
were up to date.

McKinney added that, "Highly specialized classes were given at
Camp Holabird on the subject of Protection. This included training designed
to prepare this army unit to assist the Secret Service. If our support
had not been refused, we would have been in Dallas."

L. Fletcher Prouty -- From 1955 to December 31, 1963, Col. L. Fletcher
Prouty was the Focal Point (liason) officer between the Pentagon and
the CIA. During 1962 and 1963 he was Director of Special Plans (clandestine
operations) in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Concerning Sept. 11, 2001: Why weren't the airlines that
struck the World Trade Center or the Pentagon intercepted by U.S. fighter
jets?

Both the U.S.
Air Force and the Federal Aviation Authority have procedures regarding
planes that have veered off course. Federal law mandates that the Air
Force must dispatch a plane to investigate why a certain craft has strayed
from its route. These interceptors are only allowed to shoot an airliner
from the sky under orders from the president.

On Oct. 23, 1999,
golfer Payne Stewart's incapacitated Learjet going from Orlando to Dallas
made a wrong turn. Within 19 minutes after the flight appeared to be
off course, an Air Force F-16 was dispatched and ready to intercept
the plane.

But a far different
fate awaited the four hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001. Almost 113
minutes elapsed between the time American Airlines Flight 11 lost contact
and was hijacked at 8:13:31 until the time United Airlines Flight 93
crashed in Shanksville, Pa., at 10:06:05. One hour and 53 minutes went
by and the Air Force did not intercept one of the four planes.

Regarding Flight
77's crash into the Pentagon: A former Pentagon air traffic controller
observed: " when I was at the Pentagon, this wouldn't have
happened. ATC (Air Traffic Control) Radar images were (and are) available
in the Pentagon, and any commercial flight within 300 miles of
Washington, D.C., that made an abrupt course change toward Washington,
D.C., or turned off its transponder and refused to communicate with
ATC, would have been intercepted within minutes by fighters,"
according to http://StandDown.net

Why no reprimands
or firings? Why virtually no investigative reporting? Why such a lack
of cooperation from the Bush administration?

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
they send forth a ripple of hope,
and crossing each other,
from a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current,
that can sweep down,
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."http://Robert
FKennedy.net

xoxoxoxo

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try,
No hell below us, above us only sky,
Imagine all the people, living for today.
Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too,
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one